ILLUSTRATIONS OF IRISH HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY, MAINLY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By C. Litton Falkiner. With three maps. 426 pp. 8vo. Longmans, Green & Co.

This volume is equally divided between careful analytical studies of Irish subjects. "Dublin Castle," "Phoenix Park." "The Irish Courts," the "counties and woods of Ireland," the parish church of the Irish Parliament and the civic and commercial history of Dublin. The last half is filled with early notices and accounts of Ireland by Fynes. Moryson, Lecale, Gernon, Brereton and Rocheford, all in the first half of the eighteenth century. Unlike most books upon Ireland, it shows every sign of close historical study.

explored corners of the French Archives, form most interesting reading.

NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE IN SOUTHERN ITALY AND THE RISE OF THE SECRET SOCIETIES, THE. By R. M. Johnston, author of "Napoleon, a Short Biography," etc. In 2 vols. 8vo. The Macmillan Co.

The reign of Murat in Naples and the return of Ferdinand to his throne there were succeeded in Southern Italy by the growth of a large number of secret societies, out of which later came a movement which ended in the consolidation of Italy and the steps which created the Italian Kingdom. Mr. Johnston has covered this little known period extending over fifteen years, from 1805 to 1820, presenting a new view of Murat and placing tangled years wholly unknown to the general reader of history and unfamiliar even to the specialist in their proper relation to the general current of events in Italy.

SHORT HISTORY OF OREGON, A. Compiled by Sidona V. Johnson. Illustrated. 315 pp. Indexed. 16mo. A. C. McClurg & Co. The "History of the Willamette Valley," by George H. Hines has been made the basis of this narrative, intended for use in the schools of Oregon. It accepts the service of Dr. Marcus Whitman without reference to the recent attempt to show that his share in securing Oregon was mythical.

SOCIAL LIFE UNDER THE STUARTS. By Elizabeth Godfrey, author of "Home Life Under the Stuarts." Illustrated. 266 pp. Indexed. 8vo. E. P. Dutton & Co.

The author of "Home Life Under the Stuarts" has followed a similar method in this volume, which gathers in chapters on the pastimes, music, art, science, traveling, reading. news, friendship and religion of the period, a wide array of quotations, examples, illustrations and comment.

STORY OF FERRARA, THE. By Ella Noyes. Illustrated by Dora Noyes. 411 pp. 12mo. J. M. Dent & Co., London.

A small volume, one of a series, following the usual model of the seventeen already issued. The origin of the city is briefly sketched. Its history is told in a style midway between analysis and romance and an effort is made to present the historical characters included, so as to be vivid. The monuments are described in the spirit of the peripatetic guide, the criticism being for the most part second-hand without knowledge of related conditions.

brook Chancellor and Fletcher Willis Hewes. In 10 parts. Part 1. Illustrated. 521 pp. Indexed. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

The first volume of ten, which are to summarize the history of the United States in the modern method, with abundant maps, much detail and a close attention to social development as well as to events and institutions. The present volume covers the period of discovery and settlement. Besides the usual historical chapters, there are chapters on manufacture, social life, religion, morality and literature.

BENEATH VIRGINIA SKIES. By Georgie Tillman Snead. Illustrated. 243 PP. 12mo. ScottThaw Co. Opens in Virginia in 1772. This historical juvenile recounts the struggle between the clergymen of the established Church and the "New Light" dissenting preachers, with one of whom a young woman, the daughter of a wealthy planter, falls in love, when she is engaged to another man. This leads the young clergyman to forget everything "in the yearning of his heart to eliminate the sadness in those large beseeching eyes which were looking into his." The clergyman is arrested and imprisoned for preaching without a license and the tangle of a double marriage stays the smooth course of the story, which is com

plicated by the capture of the clergyman by Indians, and happily cleared by the discovery that the unworthy suitor is an imposter.

BETHANY. By Thomas E. Watson, author of "Napoleon," etc. Illustrated. 383 pp. 12mo. D. Appleton & Co.

The historian turns readily to fiction nowadays. Mr. Watson writes a tale which is apparently merely the excuse for the setting forth of a picture of the old South. The book is based on facts, it seems, and the facts have authority as well as picturesqueness. But the romance amounts to little, merely serves as a means to this plea "to do justice to the South."

ELLEN AND MR. MAN. By Gouverneur Morris, author of "Aladdin O'Brien." With frontispiece by Leon Guipon. 212 pp. 12mo. The Century Co.

This is a story for young people, as sweet and pretty as any such story of recent months has been.

Ellen is a beautiful girl, and Mr. Man is a quaint, lovable little lad, who adores Ellen with a fervor and devotion entirely chivalrous. and who, in his way, is quite as delightful and admirable as the Tinker in "The Admirable Tinker."

A historical novel cast in England in the Fourteenth Century.

FRIEND AT COURT, A. By Jessie Emerson Moffat. Illustrated. 307 pp. 12mo.

A romance of the days of Louis XIV, written along conventional lines, with the usual conventional heroine and hero of the impossible type.

The one interesting feature of the book is the fact that the friend at court is Madam DeMain

tenon.

HEART OF HAPPY HOLLOW, THE. By Paul Laurence Dunbar. Illustrated. 309 pp.

12mo. Dodd, Mead & Co.

Studies of negro life. Some of them have been published, but most of them are new. Part are stories cast about a negro settlement and part touch on negro life in the South.

HOPE HATHAWAY PICTURES. Eight in number. By Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist. 10x14 inches. C. M. Clark Publishing Co.

The illustrations from "Hope Hathaway" printed on large sheets in black and white. with photogravure effects. Splendid for framing.

IN THE CELTIC PAST. By Anna MacManus, author of "The Four Winds of Erin," etc. 12mo. Funk & Wagnalls Co.

Nine tales of Irish adventure and legend by the late Mrs. MacManus, and written with all her usual ardor for her native land.

JAPANESE ROMANCE, A. By Clive Holland, author of "Mousme," etc. Ilustrated by Arthur G. Dove. 338 pp. 12mo. Frederick A. Stokes & Co.

A touching story, many of the scenes of which are laid in Japan. Mr. Holland is so well known for his delightful Japanese romances that his work scarcely needs a fresh recommendation.

By

LITTLE LOVE STORIES OF MANHATTAN. Melville Chater. 227 pp. 12mo. The Graiton Press.

"Sunday Specials" which appeared in the New York Herald with a framing of ornament which deprived them of reality. They are now gathered in a book, making some 21 short love stories laid in New York. Each has

a touch of local color, and always the absorbing passion in some new guise, with perpetual reference to open-work stockings and white skirts. Many turn on the life of the stage, the chorus girls and Wall street, the plot often having as its basis the contact between the business men who own money and the show women who spend it.

Mrs. Bibbins, of Baltimore, Md., writes in this a merry tale of the adventures of Black Mammy in Europe. The story of the old woman's impressions are laughter-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable.

Some of the places that Mammy visits are Stratford, Oxford and London, and some of the things that she sees are "Madam Too-so's Wax Works," "The Zoo" and "West Minister's Chu'ch." On seeing the statue of Shakespeare Mammy holds up her hands in horror and cries: "Oh, think ob dat ungodly play actor in dis sacred comp'ny o' saints, an' not a single 'Merikin hero 'mongst de lot!"

"MAMMY ROSIE." By Albert Morris Bagby, author of "Miss Traumerei.” 333 pp. 12mo. Published by the author.

A novel of New York Society, in which the various conspicuous figures in it are described by a rather awkward device, through the colored servant of a young man. The book is full of touches of commonplace vulgarity.

MR. WADDY'S RETURN.

By Theodore Win

throp, author of "Cecil Dreeme." Edited by Burton E. Stevenson. 278 pp. 12mo. Henry Holt & Co.

This book was written by the late Theodore Winthrop. It was left unrevised when the author died, and the family did not wish to have it published as it stood, so Mr. Stevenson has taken the manuscript and gleaned from it the finer portions. The return of Mr. Waddy typifies the return from India to the Boston and Newport of the days prior to the Civil War.

MY JAPANESE PRINCE. By Archibald Clavering Gunther, author of "Mr. Barnes of New York," etc. 256 pp. 12mo. The Home Publishing Co.

This is Mr. Gunther in the usual Gunther style. The spirit anticipates the Russo-Japanese trouble. The book is in form of an autobiography and presents the adventures and romance of a Massachusetts girl traveling in the Far East.

OFF THE HIGHWAY. By Alice Prescott Smith, author of "The Legatee,' etc. 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Mrs. Smith's "Legatee" won great praise for its excellent character drawing. Her new story, a romance of California and life on the fruit farms of the Sierra Nevadas, fulfils in good measure the promise of her first book.

ON A LARK TO THE PLANETS. By Frances Trego Montgomery, author of "Billy Whiskers," etc. Illustrated by Winifred D. Elrod. 180 pp. 12mo. The Saalfield Publishing Co.

This is a sequel to the "Wonderful Electric Elephant," published last year. In it Harold and Ione take a ride on the Electric Elephant, and visit various of the planets, where wonderful deeds of magic are performed.

ON ETNA. By Norma Lorimer. Illustrated. 336 pp. I2mo. Henry Holt & Co.

This Sicilian novel, by Mrs. Norma Octavia Lorimer, who, according to her own account, writes every month for "The Girl's Own Paper," has returned in this novel to her Sicilian field. The novel opens with the capture of an heiress by brigands. The capture proves to be a part of rough love-making, whereupon the girl falls in love with the wrong man, in a story of unusual and vivid interest.

OVERLORD, THE. By Allen McIvor, author of "The Bride of Glendearg." 423 pp. 12mo. William Ritchie.

This is advertised as a "man's story," and pictures the Canadian, upon whom Mr. McIvor looks as a vassal, oppressed by the constant necessity for appeal to the home government. He maintains that the majority of inhabitants are permitted to grow up without education, and that the British rule, instead of being one of liberty and justice, is one of negligence. All this he portrays in a story in which he introduces certain famous persons as chief characters, although withholding their real names. It is not a story that will make a wide appeal, and certainly not one that appeals by the force of its literary attributes.

SCENES OF JEWISH LIFE. By Mrs. Alfred Sedgwick. 302 pp. 12mo. Longmans, Green & Co.

A collection of short stories that have appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine," the "Pall Mall Gazette," "Temple Bar" and the "Sphere." Their name speaks for itself, as does the name of their author, who wrote "The Beryl Stone," "Cynthia's Way," etc.

SECRET HISTORY OF TO-DAY. By Allen Upward, author of the "Secrets of the Courts of Illustrated. Europe," etc. 310 pp. 12mo. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

TRADITIONS OF THE SKIDI PAWNEE. Collected and annotated by George A. Dorsey. With introduction, notes and illustrations, 359 pp. Indexed. 8vo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

This volume, published by the American Folk-Lore Society, collects the traditions gained by its author in investigation begun in 1899 and continued until the end of 1902. The Pawnee, a nation of warriors and hunters, forms one of the five independent groups of the Caddoen stock. Mr. Dorsey, who is a foremost authority on this subject, has collected and arranged in sympathetic order the tales of these Indians on cosmogony, boy heroes. "medicine," animal tales and miscellaneous folk-lore. Notes complete the volume, which is one of the most substantial additions recently made to American ethnology.

TRUANTS, THE. By A. E. W. Mason, author of "The Four Feathers," etc. 12mo. Harper Bros.

Reserved for later notice.